News tagged with human consumption


Poultry drug increases levels of toxic arsenic in chicken meat

(Medical Xpress)—Chickens likely raised with arsenic-based drugs result in chicken meat that has higher levels of inorganic arsenic, a known carcinogen, according to a new study led by researchers at theJohns Hopkins Center ...

Health created May 13, 2013 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Forthcoming study explores use of intermittent fasting in diabetes as cardiovascular disease

Intermittent fasting is all the rage, but scientific evidence showing how such regimes affect human health is not always clear cut. Now a scientific review in the British Journal of Diabetes and Vascular Disease suggests that f ...

Diabetes created Apr 26, 2013 | popularity 2.3 / 5 (3) | comments 1

Clenbuterol in livestock farming may affect results of doping controls in sport

The illegal use of clenbuterol in livestock farming may affect the results of doping controls in sport. This is the conclusion of a study by the Institute of Food Safety, RIKILT Wageningen UR, Netherlands, in partnership ...

Health created Apr 18, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Women with HIV shown to have elevated resting energy expenditure

Studies have shown that about 10 percent of men infected with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) have an elevated resting energy expenditure (REE). Their bodies use more kilocalories for basic functions including circulation, ...

HIV & AIDS created Apr 16, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Portugal finds horse painkiller drug in burgers, meatballs

Burgers and meatballs sold in Portugal by French retailer Auchan have been found to contain horsemeat with small traces of an animal painkiller that is potentially harmful to humans, Portugal's consumer watchdog said Thursday.

Health created Mar 07, 2013 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Circuitry of cells involved in immunity, autoimmune diseases exposed

New work from the Broad Institute's Klarman Cell Observatory, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard University, MIT, and Yale University expands the understanding of how one type of immune cell – known as a T helper 17 ...

Medical research created Mar 06, 2013 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

EU says too early to impose meat labelling

The European Commission said Tuesday it is too early to require labelling on meat used in processed foods despite growing uproar over horse meat being passed off as beef in frozen hamburgers and lasagne.

Other created Feb 12, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Soya protein can be replaced by rapeseed protein, nutritionists find

Today, more than 500 million people are suffering from a lack of adequate protein in their diet. Each year, the number of human beings increases by 80 million, a figure which is equivalent to the present population of Germany. ...

Health created Jan 28, 2013 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

New study suggests many apples a day keep the blues at bay

Eating more fruit and vegetables may make young people calmer, happier and more energetic in their daily life, new research from New Zealand's University of Otago suggests.

Psychology & Psychiatry created Jan 23, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Genetic link between pancreatitis and alcohol consumption

A new study published online today in Nature Genetics reveals a genetic link between chronic pancreatitis and alcohol consumption. Researchers from the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and more than 25 other health ...

Genetics created Nov 12, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Caffeine's effect on the brain's adenosine receptors visualized for the first time

Molecular imaging with positron emission tomography (PET) has enabled scientists for the first time to visualize binding sites of caffeine in the living human brain to explore possible positive and negative ...

Medical research created Nov 01, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Common food preservative may slow, even stop tumor growth

Nisin, a common food preservative, may slow or stop squamous cell head and neck cancers, a University of Michigan study found.

Cancer created Oct 31, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (6) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Oropharyngeal cancer patients with human papillomavirus have more robust response to radiation therapy

(Medical Xpress)—UC Davis cancer researchers have discovered significant differences in radiation-therapy response among patients with oropharyngeal cancer depending on whether they carry the human papillomavirus (HPV), ...

Cancer created Sep 25, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Signal analysis techniques used to map normal neural activity

(Medical Xpress)—Looking at a tangled mass of network cables plugged into a crowded router doesn't yield much insight into the network traffic that runs through the hardware.

Neuroscience created Sep 13, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Hunter-gatherers, Westerners use same amount of energy, contrary to theory

Modern lifestyles are generally quite different from those of our hunter-gatherer ancestors, a fact that some claim as the cause of the current rise in global obesity, but new results published July 25 in the open access ...

Overweight and Obesity created Jul 25, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 3 | with audio podcast